Vol. 36 No. 5, October 2004
Index
- Why September sucks.
- Database Nation.
- Objections to These Unions.
- Reason news.
- 25 years ago in reason.
- Love for sale: Berkeley's prostitution initiative.
- Teletubbies: fat ad budgets and fat kids.
- Bhutan's boob tube: Shangri-la wrestles with TV.
- Quotes.
- School net scams: no tech firm left behind.
- Source.
- An Italian driver has been fined 300 euros and assessed 500 euros in court costs for calling a parking attendant a "nobody".
- Cerebral palsy has left Courtney Glowczewski with a withered arm and leg.
- Injecting tyranny: anti-drug "vaccines".
- Saparmurat Niyazov doesn't like gold fillings.
- Singapore has mandated that all cigarette packs carry graphic images of what smoking can do.
- Slobodan Milosevic has had his bank account frozen, and his funds may be seized for war reparations.
- The British government is considering a plan to let local governments seize houses that have been vacant for at least six months and rent them out.
- The state of Nebraska can't account for thousands of dollars spent by its anti-tobacco program.
- The U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control is charged with investigating the finances of terrorist organizations and enforcing America's economic embargo of Cuba.
- Those who dine at the Russian parliament's commissary will have to use plastic utensils.
- Your records, please: the war on "indecency".
- Balance sheet.
- Hydrogen hot air: polluting with cleaner cars.
- Second-guessing the First Amendment.
- Cleaning up e-mail: an end to spam?
- Libertarian dark horse.
- Unbalanced like a Fox: Rupert Murdoch's critics should follow his lead.
- Beyond belief: when will secularism be allowed in the public square?
- Orange you glad he didn't say red? The president's credibility problem.
- John Kerry's dark record on civil liberties: the Democratic candidate is no friend to the Bill of Rights.
- Ten reasons to fire George W. Bush (and nine reasons why Kerry won't be much better).
- No way out: the No Child Left Behind Act provides only the illusion of school choice.
- Welcome to the fun-free university: the return of in loco parentis is killing student freedom.
- Age of propaganda: the government attacks teenage drinking with junk science.
- Open secrets: how the government lost the drug war in cyberspace.
- Crossballs puzzle: why don't the guests on Comedy Central's fake debate show get the joke?
- David Simon says: the creator of HBO's The Wire talks about the decline of journalism, the failure of the drug war, and a new kind of TV.
- Bad deal: how FDR made life worse for African Americans.
- Surf's up: why Bill and Ted are the ultimate Americans.
- Food fight.